Kathy Waghorn | |
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Born | 1970 Ōmata, Taranaki Region, New Zealand |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of Auckland RMIT University |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Auckland AUT Monash University |
Kathy Waghorn (born 1970) [1] is a New Zealand architectural academic,artist and curator based in New Zealand. [2] She is the director of the social enterprise company HOOPLA.
Waghorn is from Ōmata,a settlement in Taranaki,New Zealand. [3] She graduated with a Bachelor of Architectural Studies from the University of Auckland and in 2017 received a PhD from RMIT University for her thesis,The practice of feeling for place:a compendium for an expanded Architecture. [4]
Waghorn is co-director with Nina Patel of HOOPLA,an Auckland social enterprise,established in 2013. [3] HOOPLA and Waghorn were recognised in 2023 at the A+W Dulux Awards winning the Munro Diversity Award which celebrates those who support diversity in the field of architecture. [5] The judges said:"Dr. Kathy Waghorn is a highly esteemed academic whose work over many decades has constantly challenged the ideas of practice and pedagogy." [6]
She has taught at the University of Auckland,then at Huri Te Ao,The School of Future Environments at AUT. [3] She is associate professor in the architecture department at Monash University,Naarm / Melbourne. [3] As a teacher the community engagement work of HOOPLA 'underpins' her pedagogy. [7]
As an artist curator,Waghorn created Muddy Urbanism,at the Auckland Triennial (2013) [3] and the New Zealand pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia 15th International Architecture Exhibition. [8] A 2019 project was exhibition and book Making Ways,Alternative Architectural Practice in Aotearoa at Objectspace Auckland. [9] Waghorn was co-curator and co-editor along with architectural lecturer Mike Davis. In the work is themes of resistance to a capitalist,political economy and how architectural and design can do this. [9]
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